![]() The two men often visited the track together. Jeff had been dating Roznowski's seventeen-year-old daughter, Jami, for about three years. Jeff Conner was survived by his mother Sherry and sister Jennifer he played football at Du Quoin High School and was getting ready to go to college to become a police officer. Zoomie's death before the wedding, had the additional tragic consequence that Jennifer and Katelynn lost their rights to access assistance. Katelynn was born with severe hydrocephalus, and because of this, Jennifer and Zoomie put off getting married in March 2006 so that their daughter would be eligible for medical assistance. After their divorce Zoomie lived with Jennifer Dilliner for almost 4 years and had his last child, Katelynn DawnMarie Roznowski, with her. ![]() Roznowski had had Christina, Elizabeth and Jami from his ex-wife Pat. He was survived by four daughters, Christina, Elizabeth, Jami and Katelynn. He was also the maintenance supervisor for the Du Quoin School District. The racing program was cancelled after the crash.ĭonald Roznowski, known by his friends as "Zoomie", was a racing enthusiast and often helped in the pits with fire extinguishers, since he had been volunteering as a firefighter for the city of Du Quoin for ten years. The car landed on the top rows of the grandstand, which has about twenty-five rows of bleachers, where a group of spectators was attending the event, Roznowski died at the scene, Conner was pronounced dead at the Crossroads Community Hospital in Mt. The driver told police the car's throttle got stuck before the vehicle hit the concrete track wall and vaulted up into the grandstand. ![]() Seven others, including Beattie, were injured.Īt the moment of the crash, Beatiee was doing a qualification run and was the only competitor on the track. The steel block, late model stock car of Kevin Beattie, a driver from Benton, Illinois, left the track at high speed, flipped high into the air and flew onto the grandstands where the two were sitting. Variant: 1/4-mile dirt oval (1988-present)įifty-one-year-old Donald Roznowski and his daughter's eighteen-year-old boyfriend, Jeff Conner II, both from Du Quoin, IL, were fatally injured during a qualifying run at the Mount Vernon Raceway, in southern Illinois, on 20 August 2005. Vernon, in Jefferson County, IL, United States
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